A new exploit is using Microsoft Office documents to deliver malware. This is different from the reanimated macro exploits. If this exploit, the target will receive an Office document, such as a Word file, as an email attachment. Opening the attachment causes a malicious HTML application to be downloaded from the attackers C2 server. This is executed as an .hta file, disguised as an RTF file. The result is the attacker ...
CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Procedures for Telling Computers and Humans Apart, was a system first theorized by cryptographer Alan Turing in 1950. We find these little “I am not a robot” challenges popping up all over the place, especially when creating a new account, registering for a web service the first time, or sometimes as form of poor man’s two-factor authentication. ...
Everything you can think of and many things you have never dreamed of are being manufactured with little Linux operating systems and wireless Internet connections. Or in simpler terms, a brain, storage, and communications ability. This is the Internet of Things (IoT). Lots and lots of “smart” devices talking to each other and phoning home to some data collection or dissemination point. If only the people who are designing these ...
Is this existentialism? Reminds me of a Zen Buddhist koan. What is the sound of one hand clapping? Paying for parking before existing! From Pinterest.
Yes, I have. A “breach” is an computer security incident where a website’s data has been illegally accessed by cyber-attackers and released publicly.
I know that my main email account has been compromised in the past, and used for sending Spam, because my hosting provider disabled my email account and hosting account until I had an opportunity to change my password.
I know that all my websites are under continuous automated password guessing attack, ...
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We can’t talk about robots without thinking about robots running amok as in the Terminator movies. But it turns out that most of the robots that are available today can be easily hacked by humans.
Robots are showing up in industrial settings, in hospitals, on our roads as autonomous vehicles, in secure facilities as guards, and in our homes, as carpet cleaners, children’s companions. Soon they will be everywhere, assisting, working, ...
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Last Friday’s post was a milestone that we have been anticipating for a while. We have written and published a thousand articles! We started this web log on October 26, 2006, and have been writing for over a decade.
We got off to a slow start, and it took us a while to find our voice, and to specialize in cybersecurity. In the beginning, we were a general computer technology blog. ...
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